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It's always a bird-brained idea to film yourself committing a crime. Blake Richard Riede, 21, had his wings clipped by the cops after he allegedly released some injured birds after Boyd Hill Nature Park's wildlife rehab center in St. Petersburg closed for the day, reports WTSP News-10 in Tampa Bay. A feather in the cap to the police who found Riede through a solid lead: A tip led them to a video posted on YouTube titled,...

Just saw William Shatner reciting Taxi, Harry Chapin's ballad of lost love. "It. Was. Raining hard in 'Frisco ..." The potential of the Internet has finally been realized. I was watching and listening to the overdramatic former captain of the television starship Enterprise on the Web site www.sugarjar.com. The site lets you see and share all kinds of music videos, from Duke Ellington's Satin Doll to The Beatles' All You Need Is Love and Outkast's Bombs Over Baghdad. It's a wild collection of the classic and current, the unknown and maybe-shouldn't-have-been-done.

Viacom Inc., producer of The Daily Show, filed a $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube and its owner Google Inc. that would eliminate some of the most popular programming on the Internet's biggest video-sharing site. The complaint, filed in federal court in New York, alleges "massive intentional" copyright infringement, New York-based Viacom said Tuesday. Viacom, which had been in licensing talks with YouTube, escalated the dispute after failing to reach an agreement over the posting of almost 160,000 clips of shows such as South Park and The Colbert Report.

The Panthers? parent company, Sunrise Sports & Entertainment, has launched a Panthers channel on YouTube aimed at providing and receiving fan-generated videos to extend the team?s brand. The company is considering it an extension of GrowlTV, which is the online video section of the team?s Web site. That?s where you?ll find player and broadcaster interviews, highlights and other features. The YouTube channel already includes interviews with players, videos made by fans, and Stanley C. Panther playing prankster.

Making videos is an essential step for Jewish organizations interested in getting their message out to a younger audience, new media marketing experts say. "Unfortunately, many people are not reading newspapers anymore and watching TV - there's only one way to get people's attention," said Jason Frank, co-founder of Giving Tree, the marketing, production and consulting company for Jewish nonprofits that he runs with Molly Livingstone. Frank said organizations should post videos to YouTube instead of just distributing them through an organization's network or a niche site such as YidTube or JewTube, which has faced legal action by YouTube.

Here come the mini-Madoffs. The Better Business Bureau warned recently about a proliferation of what appear to be Ponzi schemes on YouTube. The agency said nearly 23,000 of these videos, usually promoting "cash gifting" or "gifting club" programs, had been identified, and they'd received nearly 60 million views. "They make it seem like it's legal and an easy way to make money, but it's nothing more than a pyramid scheme," Better Business Bureau spokeswoman Alison Southwick said. A spokesman for YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc., said the company wouldn't comment on individual videos.

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On the YouTube video-sharing Web site, Edward Muscare is known by his user name "Edarem," and his recordings show an older man lip syncing and singing songs such as Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman." Many of them have drawn hundreds of thousands of page views, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Muscare's videos have become so viral that law-enforcement agencies in Florida and South Carolina, where he has been living, became aware of his online presence. The former Lake County resident is a registered sex offender.

Adriane Reesey had about $17,000 for her campaign for the Democratic nomination for Broward supervisor of elections, less than one-third of incumbent Brenda Snipes? total. Reesey turned to YouTube with this video, complete with Oval Office background and shove into the swimming pool, to get some buzz for her campaign for Broward supervisor of elections. ?YouTube in campaigns is going to bet bigger and bigger and bigger,? said political consultant Neil Schiller. ?You have the ability for someone with a video camera to basically do television commercials very cheaply.

We've all heard about "15 minutes of fame." It was, at one point, what everyone strove for: the ability to get their names out there, to be recognized -- if only for the shortest period of time. Things have changed, however, with technology and the popularity of Web sites such as YouTube, where anyone can post videos. It's quite an experience for teens to be able to post videos on the Internet and receive feedback from those outside their peer group -- in some cases on quite a grand scale.

With four of their students and two professors still missing in Haiti, Lynn University students are trying to finding ways to express their anxiety. Flowers and teddy bears have been placed next to the Haitian flag, one of many at the school, which attracts a large international population. Nightly vigils are being held, using luminaries. And one Lynn student, Makayla Duvall, has created a YouTube video, with a photo montage of the missing students and faculty, displayed to the tune of The Fray?